Directs the department of health to develop an informational pamphlet concerning perimenopause and menopause, which shall include information concerning the stages of perimenopause and menopause, the signs and side effects, and options for the management and treatment; requires that such informational pamphlet be made available on the department's website and available for order as a printed deliverable; requires practitioners to make such informational pamphlet available to patients.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9000--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
department of health to create an informational pamphlet concerning
perimenopause and menopause
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 267-c to read as follows:
3 § 267-c. Information concerning perimenopause and menopause. 1. The
4 department shall develop an informational pamphlet concerning perimeno-
5 pause and menopause. Such pamphlet shall include, but shall not be
6 limited to, evidence-based information concerning:
7 (a) the stages of perimenopause and menopause;
8 (b) the signs and symptoms of perimenopause and menopause; and
9 (c) options for the management and treatment of perimenopause and
10 menopause.
11 2. Such informational pamphlet shall be written in layperson's
12 language and shall be made available in English and the six most common
13 non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited English profi-
14 ciency in New York state as based on the most recent census.
15 3. Such informational pamphlet shall be made available on the depart-
16 ment's website as a printable file and may also be made available for
17 order as a printed deliverable on the department's website.
18 4. Practitioners shall make such informational pamphlet available to
19 patients.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 5. For purposes of this section, "practitioner" shall mean a health
2 care professional licensed, certified or otherwise authorized to prac-
3 tice under the education law, acting within their scope of practice.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
5 have become a law.
